According to the WSJ and various real estate experts, “gentrification of the bordering neighborhoods of Ditmas Park and Windsor Terrace is gradually creeping in,” with renters lured by streets “vibrant with ethnic shops and restaurants” and a relatively cheap mix of apartments and houses for sale.

Essentially, the same picture you see in most neighborhoods being populated by wealthier transplants.

Perhaps most notably, the neighborhood once served by just the F train, now has permanent service by the G line as well, connecting it to both Williamsburg and Greenpoint, two other neighborhoods we’ve been recently told are hot hot hot with newcomers to the borough.

The article ends with a short list of train lines, restaurants, schools, shops, and parks in the area, as any good travel logue must.

Aren’t you starting to miss the good old days when gentrifiers had to do their own legwork to find out which neighborhoods to swarm and makeover in their own image, rather than just having newspapers hip them to the hot new hoods?

Like the time I discovered Bushwick, all by myself, without help from you or The New York Times or anybody!

Just kidding, obviously, but all these supposed news articles that exist for the sole purpose of alerting people to the existence of “new,” ripe-for-the-refurbishing neighborhoods — all while making self-effacing references to the changes brought on by gentrification, mind you — are starting to feel a little off.

Are any current Kensington residents reading this and thinking “Finally, the call to arms we’d hoped for!” And for that matter, how many apartment seekers have now decided to run, not walk, to Kensington thanks to this new guide? Well, maybe lots of them for all I know. After all, the neighborhood does have “ethnic food.”

@Arse If you read the post (did you?) at no point do I take issue with moving to Kensington – it’s nice there! What I do take issue with are weird articles rallying the troops to a cheap “new” “ethnic” neighborhood for no other reason than to chase trends and/or gentrification-bait. ~~The more you know!

This really sucks. Hipsters and young yuppy types would hate the hood anyway. First off, no bars or night life and IF there was that sort of thing, it’s unlikely they would be catering to stroller parent’s with their kids in tow and ironic hipster types. Better off those folk just stay in Park Slope, Bushwick and Williamsburg.

Hipsters: Please stay out of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It’s nice not to see beardos, skinny jeans, chunky glasses, chuck tailors, and everyone looking the same but thinking they are different walking around.